Humanydyne ReadThru at the RPGPub
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Humanydyne ReadThru at the RPGPub

I was faintly annoyed that the English translation was never completed and Google Translate really struggled. So...I'm doing a slightly AI assisted read-through of the book. https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/humanydyne-a-rather-mechanistic-readthrough.11211/
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Interview on Randomworlds.

Tonight I was interviewed by the Harboiled GMshoe, Dan Davenport https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/qa-matt-johnston-rise-of-rlyeh/ We talked about the recent release of Rise of R’lyeh and touched on some recent books we have released.…
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Culture….and reimagining Trek

On one of the forums was the question about building Star Trek from scratch. Of course there's always Frontier. but I#d really like to run a Culture game ? What…
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FASERIP generator

Back when I was running the Watchtower New England game using Marvel Super Heroes' FASERIP system, I wrote a simple character generator. I found it recently, and thought I'd pop…
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Whither Krull?

In this 1983 science-fantasy movie, the planet Krull is invaded by an extraterrestrial conqueror known as The Beast who moves his space-capable stone dwelling (the Black Fortress) from planet to…
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Games in a Utopia

I guess it depends where you sit. We live in a post-scarcity civilisation (we have the technology), we just don’t live in a post-scarcity society. Scarcity is manufacturered. So are…
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Brett Devereaux on the Siege of Gondor:

It's pretty interesting reading. Pop along here for the series. My reply? While I enjoyed reading this incredibly nerdy analysis of the battle for Gondor, The author forgets several points.…
ALIENS RPG by Fria Ligan
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ALIENS RPG by Fria Ligan

We've run two sessions of the Aliens RPG for Graham, Jim, Mike and Barry and we've had a heap of fun. I've run the starter adventure (Cinematic) and we're just…